New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-04

regarding the establishment OF line OF man
steamers to Brazil there would have been no Post
master General Villas to cripple the trade Of this
country.
ought to be done. and was not nevertheless COM
pretended earlier than most others the wonderful
power of the Nation to resist peril which, to men
Of this day. yet seems threatening. Worthier in
struction can hardly be found in the literature OF
the past ten years than this from Mr.. Blaine's ac-
drese at the Minnesota State Fair in 1878:
seltgovernmen among the owners OF the SOL IN A%sr
distributed, good governments the rule Whatever as
wd other
elmes, may seek foothold here the kepnolc OF inc
where the farmers Revolution and tho trainers OF
the Constitution placed It, The man who possesses broad
Is not apt to fan in with tho doctrine of tho Communists
that no one has right to ownership in the soil dho
corn pork and in a beef in . hs: as snd he IN
%ay. hsSe aonS and always will in the
world Is not 70 be sd a' Sn %tS
such wild yagsrcs to the domain ain o. mat
folly ana absolute t S and
manufactures the three pursuits that enrich ma,
its products tho spindle and the ship will not
sail Agriculture furnishes the onS iSs
guiding. restraining, controlling force in
government Against storms OF popular popular 81 fury
tablished ORDER against theories of adm nsraon that
have STSISnsd aS in S0a Saas s p
safeguards OF Christian society and republican govern
men the farmers of the United States will stand os the
shield and the the willing subjects
OF law therefore its safest ana strongest aunlis-
traitors page 199o
But against two dangers Mr.. Blaine has not
ceased to warn the country. In his speech of De-
| cember q 1873, he showed that Southern abuse of
the elective franchise had unjustly seized thirty
five Representatives Congress and electors which
about offset the entire State of New-York or the
combined strength of New England; the seizure
of this power is wantOn usurpatlon; it is fagrant
outrage; 1t IS violent perversion OF the whole
theory of republican government" page
206. Again he says: First pure, then
peaceable. Gush will not remove q grievance
and no disguise of State rights will close the eyes
of our people to the necessity of correcting great
National wrong Nor should the South make
the fatal mistake of concluding that injustice to
the negro is not also injustice to the white man /;
nor should it ever be forgotten that for the wrongs
of both remedy will assuredy be found. The
war; with all its costly sacrifices, was fought in
vain, unless equal rights for all classes be estab-
lished in all the States of the Union" page Posi-
Before the New-England Society he uttered these
weighty words, referring to the election of a Dem
ocrat in Massachusetts by majority of one vote:
None but the Englishspeaklng people have yet been
fully educated in the belief that majority OF one is as
good as majority OF 100000 but we do believe 1t and
III
say that majority going into the millions, IL
it be founded force fraud will bring con-
entmen or peace or honor or profit to the people OF
the United States. page 2l51
And in discussing enfranchisement of theicoored |
race in 1850, in his article for Tie North american
Rerew, Mr.. Blaine wrote:
Impartial suffrage is theory. 1t must become our
practice Ry party Of American citizens bear 70 be
defeated No party OF American citizens will bear TO be
derauded The men who are interested In dishonest
est count are millions wish TO speak for the millions
OF all political parties and in their TO declare that
the Republic must be strong enough and shall be strong
enough to protect the weakest Of its citizens In all their
rights. page 1881
Those who rave at these utterances as waving
of the bloody SHIRT" do but show that they have
not the faintest conception of the vital principles
upon which free government is founded, and while
living under Republic, in political education they
belong in Turkey IN Russia.
On the question Of Chinese immigration, also, Mr.
Blaine has spoken so freely and strongly as to
offend many of his own party. But it is not posi-
BILE to deny the force of his argument that the Chi
nese treaty was from the first disregardcd by
China and that an immigration that knows no
family is not desirable He says:
In Republic especially in any that main
the family The Immigrants that come to US from all por
from Denmark, from France, from spain, from Italy,
here with the idea OF the family as much engrayen
their minds and on their customs and habits as ours
The Asiauc cannot live with population and make
homogeneous element The idea OF comparing European
immigration with an Immigration that has no regard TO
family. that does not recognize the relation OF
husband and wife. tina, does not observe The lie
degree the humanizing and enno6lng influence OF me
hearthtone aud the heS t When tax
contrased with that, they certainly are forgetting bs
cotiage Inhabited by Cinnamon. There a hearth
stone it is found and cherished in an American home
or an English home, or German home, or "A French
home. There is not domestic reside, In that sense;
and uieflV
fastened upon our country. A half century ago
Mesns II eommancson ease Of access ceapness Of
transportation have changed heisue and forced upon
United States should in the treaty and tho
status Of immigrao1 as it now f. Law and order could
OF the military FIVE years hence page 229j.
In his letter to THE TRIBUNE in reply to Mr..
Garrison, Mr.. Blame also showed that immigrants
of this character had already spread over parts of
territory larger than that of the original thirteen
colonies.
But this interesting volume not only presents
striking pictures of events aud conflicts in this
country. 1t also shows how powerfully the devel-
oprnent of American freedom has influenced
Great Britain. France. Germany, South
and Central America, and indeed the whole
world The collection of diplomatic papers
which Mr. Blaine has added in this volume pos
sesses peculiar value with regard to some of the
grayest questions of international policy which
are yet to be settled This at least the readers OF
either party see. that during the short perodn
which Mr.. Blaine was Secretary of State, questions
of worldwide interest and Importance were placed
in the ay of speedy settlement. on terms honorable
to the United States and helpful to the freedom
loving people of all other countries British
arbitrary arrests Ireland. the Panama
Canal and the desired modification of the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty, the relations of South
American nations with each other with Europe |
and with the United States are discussed in these
remarkable papers with abreadth Of craftsmanship
and force of reasoning which must Command the
praise of these who hate the largest and fore
most statesmen of the Nation in proportion as he
rises above their conceptions and motives Ono